We’ve been talking a lot about the big white cuddly things at our pad. Nice to see that they may get a place to play for more than a day.
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Month: October 2009
If you want to distribute your own DVDs, who should you use?
The Yes Men use theconneXtion.com.
Who else is out there and what do you like about them (or not)?
Jon Reiss wrote an article on choosing your fulfillment company for Filmmaker Magazine.
The WorkBook Project – Discovery and Distribution Award is part of an initiative to provide tangible options for those working in film, music, games, design and software to fund, create, distribute and sustain.
Born from a desire to share information and resources, the WBP Award strives to create an environment where the results of the various awarded projects are provided back to the community as a whole. This transparency around what works and what doesn’t is how creators will be able to flourish in a constantly changing media landscape. At the same time the sharing of resources and information helps to prime a community of creators in ways that will assist them and their prospective audiences in discovering and distributing the media that matters most to them.
Read all about it here.
I moved to NYC because of Lou Reed and Martin Scorsese. They were my young man gods of creation.
Yo La Tengo first album came out my second or so years ago. I think I have listened to all of them and have most of them. I’ve put their songs in my films. I did one video for them back in the day (with Hal Hartley). They scored ADVENTURELAND (which featured the idea of Lou Reed along with some of his songs).
And through all that Alex Chilton, Big Star, and The Box Tops played consistently on my stereo(s).
This definitely sits in the “wish I could’ve been there” bin of my time on this earth. I should’ve and could’ve but… well you know how the song goes.
hat tip: Neil Marks
I don’t have that answer and I will leave it to the others (at least for today) as so many are offering options:
- Francis Ford Coppola has got his opinion (and it sure got a lot of comments when I posted it to Facebook).
- The New Yorker ran a funny piece on the state of publishing that read a bit like Scott Macauley’s Letter From The Near Future.
- Power To The Pixel just delivered three awesome days of discussions of new forms (Check out their recommended reading).
- Arin Crumley and Jamie King have some interesting solutions.
- The industry can’t figure out formats yet again.
- the change social media has delivered is pretty astounding.
Each day I have been experiencing and encountering new ideas and new practices; All of it is pretty damn thrilling. So what if we are racing forward even if we don’t know where we are going. I am loving it.
Like I said, I don’t know, but I do believe that some of these tools will change some things significantly.
You-Centric: The Future of Browsing from Carsonified on Vimeo.
That’s Aza Raskin from Mozilla. And this is an attempt to explain Google Wave:
What are the other five tools that will make sure tomorrow does not look like today that I should be posting about?
I wish I could find a version of this in higher resolution… but for now, this is all we have to put in the bowl. Makes me want to make a contraption…
I got an email from those merry pranksters. I was inspired by the cut of their jib and sent them some money.
They have asked for everyone’s help in order to get their relevant lunacy to seen:
A labor of love to produce, and distributed in a unique partnership with Shadow Distribution (The Lost Boys of Sudan, The Weather Underground), The Yes Men Fix the World hits corporate America where it hurts, and has huge potential as a public education piece and a powerful rallying cry for progressive activists and organizers. Unfortunately after a hugely successful opening weekend in New York, and inquiries from new theaters across the country, the film’s marketing and outreach budget (never much to begin with) is almost completely tapped out! There is no budget for the 10-15 new film prints ($1200 each) that theaters want, nor for the basic advertising (another $15,000 at least) to make the film work in each major market, and in smaller cities too.
The Yes Men need your help to get the film out to cities and towns large and small across the land, where the hope is to reproduce the kind of raucous, people-powered reactions that have been typical of screenings in New York. Here’s how you can do that:
One: You can loan money to their distribution and audience engagement effort, to be paid back when proceeds from the retail DVD start rolling in next year. To take this route, please email invest@theyesmen.org.
Two: They’re putting Survivaballs up for adoption. For just $1,000, you will become the proud parent of the world’s stupidest costume. The Survivaball you own will be deployed in direct-action protest all across America, and then in December will go to Copenhagen to push world leaders to do something smart about climate change. To adopt your own active ball, please email adoptaball@theyesmen.org.
Three: You can buy a film print ($1200) and loan it until the theatrical run is finished. To help out this way, please write invest@theyesmen.org.
AND you can also just donate money, or buy posters, t-shirts, Reggie candles, etc. here.
The DailyKos had a good post on them here.
